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Ustadh Abdullah bin Hamid Ali has translated il-Jam al-awwami an ilm al-kalam of Imam al-Ghazali as “A Return to Puriy in Creed”, this is the first ever translation of Imam al-Ghazali’s final work. The book is published by the good people at LampPost Productions. I have two exclusive excerpts from this book on masud.co.uk – PDF Excerpt from Chapter 1: The Creed Of The Salaf Regarding Allegorical Reports PDF Excerpt from The Fifth Protocol: Abstaining From Meddling with the Stated…

Imam Zaid Shakir answers the questions of a “Salafi” brother who was hounding him recently to “qualify his position”. The questions are: Q: What do you say about Ibn Taymiyya? Q: What does Tariqa mean? Q: What is your position of the Hadith of the Seventy-three sects? Q: What do you say about the Ash?aris? Imam Zaid writes: “Recently, while attending a gathering of Muslims that was otherwise characterized by brotherly love and goodwill, I was hounded by a ?Salafi?…

The Speech and Word of Allah (Kal?m): In Light of Traditional Discussions Abdullah bin Hamid Ali The words ?Kal?m? and ?Qur??n? are very closely related terms. In their original legal applications they are distinct in meaning. But in another way they are synonymous. In other words, the word ?Kal?m? is usually applied to the beginningless attribute of Allah present with His being referred to as His ?Speech.? But sometimes when it is used, it means the ?Qur??n,? which is the…